Recently published Ornitliolofjical Works. 189 



17. Nicholson on the Coal-Tits. 



[Notes on the Palasarctic Species of Coal-Tits. By Francis Nicholson. 

 (Extracted from) Mem. and Proc. Manch. Phil. Soc. vol. 60. 21 pp. ; 

 Ipl.] 



This article, in which we have a good general review of 

 the birds commonly termed Coal-Tits in England, is evidently 

 sent to us in order that we may draw attention to the 

 description of a new species from Coimbra, in Portugal, 

 discovered by Dr. Vieira. Mr. Nicholson gives a coloured 

 plate of this species, which he names Parus vieirce, in com- 

 pany with what he calls P. britannicus. 



18. North on the Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds. 

 [Nests and Eggs of Birds found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania. 



By Alfred J. North, C.M.Z^., Ornithologist Australian Museum. Vol. ii. 

 pt. 2. Sydney, 1907.] 



We arc glad to announce the good progress of this 

 excellent work, to the great merits of which we have already 

 called attention on more than one occasion *. The second 

 part of the second volume continues and finishes the account 

 of the Honey-eaters (Meliphagidae), one of the most charac- 

 teristic groups of the Australian Ornis. It also includes 

 histories of such of the Nectariniidse, Zosteropidse, Dicseidse, 

 and Pardalotidse as are found in Australia and Tasmania. As 

 in former parts, the figures of birds and nests introduced into 

 the text of this work are, in many cases, of very high quality. 

 One of these (p. 208) represents the extremely curious nest of 

 Cinnyris frenatus — the only species of the family of Sun-birds 

 (Nectariniidae) found in Australia, which is one of the foster- 

 mothers of the Bronze Cuckoo {Lamprococcyx plagosus^. 



19. North on the Birds of New South Wales. 



[Additions to the Avifauna of the County of Cumberland. By Alfrevl 

 J. North. Rec. of the Australian Museum, vol. vi. pt. 8 (1907).] 



To a handbook prepared for the use of the JMembers 

 of the " Australian Association for the Advancement of 

 Science," in 1898, ]\Ir. North contributed a List of the 

 Birds of the County of Cumberland, N.S.W. (which, we 

 believe, adjoins Sydney), with notes on their haunts, habits, 

 * See ' Ibis,' 1907, p. 359. 



